Underground Chicago Pedway Walk

The Aon Center rises as a sheer white granite monolith at the edge of the Loop, its massive frame anchoring the eastern end of the underground network. Beneath the polished lobby floors, deep concrete corridors link this corporate tower…

Prudential Plaza defines the skyline with its massive, stepped profile and the bright, illuminated crown that lights up the Chicago night. Completed in nineteen fifty-five, the building served as the first major skyscraper constructed in…

The steel and glass headhouse at Millennium Station sits tucked below street level, marking the entrance to one of Chicago's busiest commuter hubs. This station occupies the site of the former Illinois Central Railroad terminal. In the…

The Tiffany dome in the Chicago Cultural Center holds the record as the world’s largest stained glass dome of its kind. When the building opened in eighteen ninety-seven as the city’s first central public library, the architect Charles…

The building occupies the entire city block bounded by State, Washington, Wabash, and Randolph streets, distinguished by a massive, wrap-around facade of cream-colored terra cotta. Originally the Marshall Field and Company store, its…

The building at Block thirty-seven features a glass facade and a high atrium that cuts through the center of the block. For decades, this land remained a gaping hole in the middle of downtown Chicago. In the nineteen eighties, city…

The Richard J. Daley Center rises as a sheer wall of rusted Cor-Ten steel, distinct among the stone and glass of the Loop. Completed in nineteen sixty-five, this courthouse and office tower broke from the neoclassical tradition of…

The City Hall of Chicago occupies an entire city block, defined by its massive granite exterior and a row of colossal Corinthian columns that rise toward the roofline. Inside this limestone frame, the building houses the offices of the…